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Health care reform should include immigrants, Latino groups say
August 12, 2009The heated debate surrounding health care reform should not exclude anyone, including legal and undocumented immigrants, civil rights leaders and Latino labor groups say. It’s not right that immigrants leave their home countries for a better...
Read moreLou Dobbs does it again: calls for firing grow
August 12, 2009The campaign against hate speech was given a fresh impulse when CNN columnist Lou Dobbs used hateful extremist language against Gov. Howard Dean alleging he is someone who is out to advance the ideas of “liberal...
Read moreMichigan event launches drive to abolish nuclear weapons
August 12, 2009BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Imagine if the threat of nuclear weapons and the billions that go to building and maintaining them instead went to provide health care, education and the prevention of global warming. It could become...
Read moreLimbaughs Nazi slurs draw condemnation
August 12, 2009House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw Rush Limbaugh into a snit when she objected to use of Nazi symbols by anti-health-reform protesters.
Read moreEDITORAL: Act now for a nuclear weapons-free future!
August 12, 2009EDITORIAL The annual commemorations of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are solemn reminders that for the last 64 years humanity has existed on the brink of a precipice ― the threat that life...
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